The laboratory, Columbus, was packed aboard space shuttle Atlantis. As NASA breezed through its countdown, the lab and shuttle were declared ready to fly to the international space station following a high-level review by managers yesterday.

Columbus has been in the works for a quarter-century. It is a 23-foot-long, high-tech laboratory worth two billion dollars that was built in Europe and will be controlled from there once it is attached to the space station.

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NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

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